Sunday October 17th 2010

*Henry Ward Beecher

Born June 24, 1813 Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.Died March 8, 1887 (aged 73) Brooklyn, New York

A prominent, Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, abolitionist, and speaker in the mid to late 19th century. An 1875 adultery trial in which he was accused of having an affair with a married woman was one of the most notorious American trials of the 19th century.